CG Didymus
Veteran Member
I think you do know what evangelical/literalist/fundamentalist Christians believe, but you act as if you don't... or maybe you don't want to get into that debate. But that debate is where we need to go. Why is there sin in the world? Well, because stupid Adam and Eve were deceived by a serpent who some Christians believe was really Satan and they ate of the forbidden fruit. God then cursed the Earth, the serpent and Adam and Eve. So sin and death now entered the world. They say the problem is... we can never be good enough. We are always going to keep sinning. But God thought of a great idea... He'd send his only Son to be a sacrifice for us and pay the penalty for our sins... a penalty we could never pay. Some day, when Jesus returns, he will gather his people and destroy Satan along with all the people that don't follow and believe in him.Jesus was the only Savior because that was His mission, but Jesus was not the only Messenger of God that ever existed.
The mission of Jesus ended when Jesus died on the cross.
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
We do not need to be saved anymore because we are already saved.
Time marches on, it does not stand still.
God had sent three Messengers since Jesus with other missions to accomplish.
If what they believe is true, then, even today, we still need a Savior. You and I are still lost in our sins. But you and I don't believe any of that. But that is only the beginning. We don't believe most all of the Genesis stories. We don't believe lots of the stories in the rest of the Bible. When we get to the Christian NT, we don't believe that either. We do we believe that all those miracles really happened? Heck no. Did Jesus come alive again? No way. What do we really know about the life and teachings of Jesus? Only what some of his followers wrote. Do we and can we trust them? No, even Baha'is have a quote that says the NT and the Bible are not 100% authentic and that it definitely can't be taken literally.
You and I are million miles away from what those kinds of Christians believe. Those Christians do take it as literal as possible. If the Bible says God spoke with Adam then it happened. If it seas the seas parted and the people crossed on dry land... they did. And if it says Jesus rose from the dead... he did. And if it says we are all lost in our sin and the only way to be saved is through Jesus... then we are.
The Baha'i Faith has some great teachings. It is a great way to get people from different religions, different cultures to come together and be one. All they have to do is reject any religious teachings they have that contradict the Baha'i Faith. All they have to do if they were Christians is to quit believing the Bible so literally. Forget the devil and sin and hell and the resurrection and anything else that blocks them from accepting the Baha'i truth. All they have to do is believe Jesus is physically dead and not ever coming back. And that the all those stories in the Bible are allegorical. Then we can all live as one. Under one wonderful world wide religion.
I can't understand why they can't see that? But wasn't it you that said the Baha'i Faith isn't better, just different? Then what's so wrong about them being different? I know, I know... it is because each of you does believe their religion is better and that the religion, or at least what is believed by some people in that other religion, is wrong.